Reward

Famous quotes containing the word reward:

“People think that if a man has undergone any hardship, he should have a reward; but for my part, if I have done the hardest possible day’s work, and then come to sit down in a corner and eat my supper comfortably—why, then I don’t think I deserve any reward for my hard day’s work—for am I not now at peace? Is not my supper good?”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)

“If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue.”
—Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)

“The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)